Keegan Messing’s return to competitive skating comes as little surprise to those who've followed him closely since his retirement.

For the past two years, Messing has been performing in rinks around the world on show tours with Kurt Browning, and the Canadian figure skating legend says if anything, his triple axels look cleaner.

“I've just been watching him skate so strongly,” Browning said. “Do a backflip, land on one foot, step, triple axel. I skate over to him and I'm like, 'Your triple axel looks better now with a backflip in front of it than it did when you're at the Olympics.'"

Messing, a two-time Olympian and two-time Canadian national champion, raised eyebrows in the figure skating world last week when he announced his return with an eye on next February’s Olympics in Milan-Cort

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